Women and Gender Studies
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Find scholarly articles on women and gender studies topics using these databases.
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Academic Search Ultimate
Access to popular press magazines and peer-reviewed scholarly journals across various academic disciplines, including open-access journals and historic Associated Press videos.
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JSTORAccess millions of articles, books, and primary sources, focusing on back issues of scholarly journals; an essential resource for research in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Women and gender studies databases
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Contemporary Women's Issues (Gale OneFile)Full-text access to articles, gray literature, and alternative publications on women's issues from over 190 countries, covering topics such as civil rights, health, education, professional development, and entrepreneurship.Maximum concurrent users: 4
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LGBTQ+ Source
The premier database for LGBTQ+ studies offers full-text scholarly and popular publications, primary sources, books, magazines, and newspapers, along with a specialized thesaurus featuring thousands of terms.
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Women's Studies International
Covers core research on women's and gender studies worldwide, including feminist theory, LGBTQ+ studies, and historical perspectives.
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Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Explores the history of women in social movements through primary sources, scholarly essays, and curated collections from colonial times to the modern era in the United States.
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Women and Social Movements, International
Primary sources on women's international activism from 1840 to today, covering reports, conference proceedings, and personal writings on topics like war, poverty, child labor, literacy, disease prevention, and women's rights.
Related Disciplines
For interdisciplinary research:
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SocIndex with Full Text
Covers a wide spectrum of disciplines like gender studies, justice studies, economics, psychology, and social work, with a strong focus on sociology and its sub-disciplines. Primarily consists of journal articles, along with books, working papers, dissertations, and conference proceedings. It also features profiles of prolific authors.
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Sociological AbstractsCoverage: 1963+
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Covers journal articles, conference papers, books, dissertations, and conference papers, book reviews related theoretical & applied sociology, social science, & policy science. Topics include sociological aspects of anthropology, gender studies, gerontology, family studies, health, racial interactions, social psychology, social work, urban studies, etc. -
PsycINFO
Expertly indexed abstracts and citations for global peer-reviewed research in psychology and related behavioral, social science, and mental health fields.
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Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Indexes articles in the fields of archaeology and classical studies, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, communications,language, literature, literary and political criticism, performing arts, philosophy, religion, etc.
Coverage: 2/1984+
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Project MUSE Journals and Books
A collection of high-quality, peer-reviewed journals and e-books from leading university presses, not-for-profit publishers, and scholarly societies, offering full-text content in literature, history, arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics.
Alternative and ethnic press
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Alt-PressWatch
Access full-text articles from selected independent newspapers, magazines, and journals offering alternative perspectives on local, national, and international issues.
Coverage: 1970+
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Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch offers articles from minority presses, including African American, Caribbean, Arab, Asian, European, Hispanic, Jewish, and Native American sources, with coverage starting from 1990.
Additional Databases
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Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC)
This database is a research and reference source in the fields of communication, journalism, and mass media. The database also covers some aspects of the field of advertising and related topics. The database indexes and abstracts journals and conference presentations.
Coverage: 1915+
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PAIS Index
Indexes global research on public policy and social issues, covering scholarly articles, books, government documents, grey literature, reports, and more. Content in multiple languages.
PAIS International (1976 to present) contains records for over half a million journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more.
PAIS Archive (1915 to 1976) is a retrospective conversion of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, volumes 1-62, published 1915-1976 and contains over 1.23 million records covering monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, and analytics.
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Social Services AbstractsCoverage: 1980+
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
This database covers current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including, but not limited to, welfare services, social education & practice, community & mental health services, poverty, homelessness, social & health policy, and welfare services. Included are abstracts of journal articles, dissertations, and citations to book reviews. -
Scopus
An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, including journals, proceedings, and patents. It offers tools for citation analysis, research tracking, and collaboration. Includes AI assistant: Scopus AI, for enhanced research with natural language searches, summaries, and expert identification.
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OECD Publications
Provides open access to global policy research, data, and analysis across topics like economics, education, environment, and development from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.